China’s Solar Storage Breakthrough | Business and Finance News

China’s solar boom is hitting a bottleneck—building panels faster than the grid can handle, causing wasted energy. But they’re betting on molten-salt thermal tech to fix it: a massive new plant in harsh, sun-drenched southwest China uses mirrors to heat salt for long-term power storage, even after sunset. Designed as a remote-grid test case, it’s set for October 2026. Unlike the costly U.S. Crescent Dunes failure, China’s project aims to avoid past mistakes with a faster rollout. Still, the solar rush may be cooling as China shifts focus to efficiency and grapples with stock market turbulence from policy and trade shifts. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/fcbe0a82b075fcf0